{"id":77987,"date":"2018-01-30T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=77987"},"modified":"2018-01-30T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:47:57","slug":"thousands-line-rockdale-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/01\/30\/thousands-line-rockdale-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands line up for Rockdale stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The queues stretched from the stadium right up to the intersection at Tosca Supermarket &#8211; testament to the huge demand for property in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77989\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77989\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/01\/IMG_9202-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/01\/IMG_9202-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/01\/IMG_9202-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people queued around Kees Taljaard Stadium on Tuesday to apply for residential stands which the municipality has made available in Rockdale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The municipality will allocate stands to applicants through means of a draw later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 See the full story in this Friday&#8217;s edition of the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people, some carrying umbrellas and others on camping chairs, queued at Kees Taljaard Stadium on Tuesday morning where they submitted applications for erven in Rockdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":77988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10289,10290,10288,10287,10284,10285,1142,10010,21966,10291,2973,10001,10286,10283,7997,5712,9276],"class_list":["post-77987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-applicants","tag-apply-for-house","tag-cheap-house","tag-free-house","tag-free-stands","tag-how-to-apply-for-rdp-house","tag-kees-taljaard","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-municipal-news","tag-municipality","tag-news-headlines","tag-rdp","tag-rockdale","tag-steve-thswete","tag-tosca","tag-trusted-news-source"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["applicants","apply for house","cheap house","free house","free stands","how to apply for RDP house","Kees Taljaard","local news","middelburg","municipal news","municipality","news","rdp","rockdale","steve thswete","tosca","trusted news source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}